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The below is attributable to Spokesperson Rebecca Chalif:‎ On the third day of her trip to Sudan, Administrator Samantha Power traveled to Um Rakuba refugee camp in Gedaref State to meet with refugees from Ethiopia’s Tigray region, representatives of Sudanese communities hosting the refugees, and U.S. government humanitarian partners responding to the crisis. USAID is providing food assistance to nearly all of the more than 46,000 refugees who have fled to Sudan since the start of the conflict. The Administrator spoke with representatives from the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United...

May 17, 2021 • UPDATED May 18, 2021 In November 2020, war erupted in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray. More than a million people have been displaced with over 60,000 Ethiopian refugees crossing the border into Sudan to seek safety from the violence devastating their homeland. Kidosan Yemani is one of the refugees who fled her home and arrived at the Um Rakuba camp in eastern Sudan with her husband, brother, and infant twins. “We had just woken up and washed our faces, and were preparing breakfast, when we heard heavy gunfire from afar,” Kidosan said. Even after six mon...

When the first American bombs crashed into Baghdad in January 1991, the nature of war fundamentally changed.  Images of the First Gulf War were bounced off satellites and broadcast live to tens of millions of homes around the world. Everyone saw how Iraq was systematically taken apart blow by blow. Since then, war has become more visible – its crimes ever harder to hide. But one conflict in the far north of Ethiopia has bucked the trend spectacularly, defying the information age.   For the last six months, communications blackouts and appalling access for human rights researchers and jo...

Program/Project Management Job in Sudan about Coordination, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from Première Urgence Internationale; closing on 24 May 2021

Tigray Crisis: Population Movement Complex Emergency - FW Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA), n° MDRTIGRAY Format This Emergency Appeal reflects the Federation-wide funding requirement of 27 million Swiss Francs, which comprises all Federation-wide support and funding to be channelled to the Ethiopian Red Cross Society, Dji-bouti Red Crescent Society, and Sudanese Red Crescent Society to deliver humanitarian assistance to and support early recovery of some 660,000 people (displaced and host communities) in Ethiopia (355,000 people), Sudan (300,000 people), and in Djibouti (5,000 people) affecte...